Henry Monckton

Henry Monckton (13 July 1740-28 June 1778) was a Lieutenant-Colonel of the British Army during the American Revolutionary War.

Biography
Monckton was born on 13 July 1740, the half-brother of distinguished British Army general Robert Monckton and the son of a family that held peerage in Ireland. From 1771 to 1772, Monckton commanded the 45th Regiment of Foot, and he was wounded at the Battle of Long Island on 22 August 1776 as a Lieutenant-Colonel during the American Revolutionary War. Monckton would take over the leadership of an ad hoc brigade of two battalions of grenadiers and one of guards after the Battle of Trenton on 26 December 1776, fighting at the Battle of the Assunpink Creek in January 1777, the Battle of Princeton, and the Battle of Brandywine later that year. Monckton was mortally wounded by case shot fired from Eleazer Oswald's cannon at the Battle of Monmouth in June 1778, dying the same day.